Day 3009

 I woke up a little before 8 and played games for a while.  Then it was up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After that was a little surfing before I started to work on installing the parts I got yesterday on the Defender.

The install started out badly.  The tow hooks needed to be spread out to fit.  One of them broke when I tried.  Cheap Chinese shit.  Then next step was more fun.  Installing the brass bottom parts to the shocks was easy and fun.  It also looks really nice.

Mounting the tires on the beadlocks wasn't hard, but it took quite a while.  Each beadlock had 6 screws.  They are small and hard to get into the wheels because the rims are deep dish.  I'm glad I knew the "longer screws first" trick.  It made everything a lot easier.

After that it was time to go outside.  I needed the tools there.  Installing the roof light required drilling hols in the roof.  After that I had to wire in the new light to the existing harness.  That required unsoldering two connections and then resoldering them with the new wires included.  That took a lot of tie and a little bit of hassle.

The final step was installing the side ladder.  That required drilling a really small hole that I didn't have a bit for.  I ended up starting the hole with a regular bit and finishing it by screwing the screw into the divot it made.  Unfortunately the first hole I made was in  the wrong place.  Oh well, you have to look to see the problem.

It was almost 1:30 when I was done.  I went back inside and made a sandwich for lunch.  Then we put up the cats and took the dog to Circle C.  It was a great day, mid 70's.  Unfortunately the creek had dried up.  Abby still had a lot of fun running around as we walked around all of the soccer fields.  She went into the woods a couple of times and we had to zap her once.  I think it was because it was hot and she'd found a pool of water to wade in.  She came back wet.

After the park we went to Waterloo so I could have a drink.  We also had nachos.  It was just too nice outside to sit at home.  They make a great $4 mango margarita.  Abby needs to work on her restaurant manners though.  After that I sat in the car with Abby while Ellen did some grocery shopping.  Then it was home.

When we got home I started looking on AliExpress for stuff I'll need to finish the 1/10 Jeep.  I spent hours looking over stuff.  I'll probably make an order tomorrow.  When that was done I did a little surfing and finished the day with videos.